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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: indi52

^^^

kizh,

teehee, google is my only saviour... women and uncontrolled passion, makes our world oh so uncomfortable.

maybe that's why they use every possible means to tell us that we are objects of great utility and forget all about passion, controlled uncontrolled anything, and in the middle of that strides in arnav singh raizada and wants to kiss in front of everyone, hold hands, drag pull haul rave rant and provoke till the passion is completely unleashed. tut tut so bad for society, this man for whom khushi loses all her moorings and becomes the lover.

One of my favourite classical dance forms is Mohiniyattam (mohini is self explanatory, aattam is dance). I've heard the ashtanayikas used in association with it. The predominant bhava (I could be wrong) is "laasya". A school mate of mine is probably the best mohiniyattam dancer I've seen, wonder what she does now. Can't even remember the name 😕!
I've always thought he's uncomfortable with PDA, but make him mad, then he'll haul, drag, pull and even kiss I guess!! There would've been a collective swoon all over the world if they had shown something like that!
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Hey all...
I hope everybody is doing well. Missing to be here. You must be missing ASR a lot i know.
Sorry guys my presence is very less in the thread nowadays.
There is a wedding going on in the family. So very much occupied with this.
So can't reply your PMs also.
 I roughly wrote some of my takes in words. Can't find time to edit, so can't post it.

@Indi, plz check your inbox, I sent you a reply, you know regarding what.😃

We've been rehearsing a dance performance with this song.
Check out the song with Arnav and Khushi.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvHSuiLV5Y[/YOUTUBE]
credit goes to Smitar


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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: indi52

episode 251



khushi looked up and her eyes followed a plane as it took off. her head turned all the way to one side, a sadness terribly deep in her. as i watched an echo from the very first day we met them came back, a young woman, fresh, innocent, unmarked by this knowledge that she has today... looking up at a helicopter, another sky rider approaching.  lovely connection 👏 no idea her rajkumar is sitting inside. today, she knows who is in that large machine that defies gravity and wings her love away. she has been marked now, once and for all by love. yes it is one way street ..like life.. once you grow up no turning back

like bookends, the two scenes, between them the first book of a pyaar that is difficult to name. from not knowing to knowing we have come, what awaits us next. a clear sense of a whole phase coming to it's end and a new one beginning... like and oceans ebb and flow... the tide has turned, teh ebbing starts, yet below the surface and tow, a pulling in, can anyone ever go away again? Yes I hadn't thought of it, but Cynthia's post got me thinking they did wrap it up pretty well. The lovers will soon find their way and become husband and wife. And in a way the tone of the show also changed after he returned. 

251... a pain filled yet exhilarating long episode. this is the last day we shall see asr the way we are so used to seeing him, in a long time. the actor is going away on longish leave, but we have been assured he will return from time to time and shoot. we know he wil be kidnapped... he is not in that plane. we also know that airport scene was not sht in an airport... it's a shopping mall.

we know many things. and we are tense... i was very very tense really. yet the actors reached effortlessly and unfalteringly in and i felt my feelings soar.

baat aapki hai... kyun mujhe khushi se door jaane mein...



what a lovely collage!
you re the sun, i am the moon, you are the words, i am the tune... play me. neil diamond from the seventies in a scene here suddenly. a beautiful, startling shot of a very disturbed asr waking up as a dejected khushi opens the curtain to let sunlight in. ever since the bridge a sadness and longing wraps the two, a yawning distance between them. and in khushi now a simple realisation and absolute need. he is hurting terribly about this whole shyam thing, he is in pain... she must convince him that it's not true, because even she can't live if he should think so badly of her.


uff what expressions.. great that you captured this..

the word love may not have been stated, but these two were lovers true. and of a kind that never felt hackneyed, never felt jaded, but always as alive and radiant as that sunlight. or darkly sparkling like a star wrapped night sky. I liked that they never talked too much about 'love'.. even later no lovey dovey mushy talk. Oh but the love was there for sure..and what love..

that shower of sunlight on his face, if only it were so easy to bring light... the veil of deceit was as thick as that curtain but not as easy to draw.

an awkwardness to the morning. where does one go from here... her voice signals things to him... he senses her, she senses him, somewhere in all the hate and nafrat, in all the i'll show you swami and harrassing laad governor, in all the accusing and counter accusing, in all the rage and chhap gaya hai and everything that has transpired, somewhere since that very first day when a man opened his eyes and a girl shut hers, something indelible has taken root and grown and is now in place... phenk do, throw it away he had told her... but she couldn't... he had tried to turn and walk away, but he had had to turn around. palat.


"ji shukla ji..."

and a palat. he knows she is down, he even knows why to an extent, and he can't bear it.

she hands him his towel and he remembers the squabbling and race for the bath just a couple of weeks ago, a smiling crazy sanka khushi. the girl he wants, the girl he adores. he even recalls, humney kaha uthiye na... swami. maybe he enjoyed that ragging by her, maybe he felt a bit tickled by her supreme madness?

missing. longing. needing
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quiet portrayals of it in looks, in eyes, and turn of head and a pace, like little paintings strewn across the wall, each shot of the two this difficult morning after. khushi knows she must make him sign the papers. he knows he will go away.

each and every shot between the two eloquest, layered and moving. little mattered that shaym and anjali scenes weresomewhat flat and loud. perhaps they needed to be noisy as they had to claim our arttention today if not our hearts. the lead is going away, the visual play is shifting, hear ye hear ye.

"n.nahin shukla ji ab humse yeh dabba service nahin hoga..." she can't do thsi dabba serbice any more. a khsuhi forlorn, so unlike herself.

another palat.

again a memory of a smiling girl... "tum kya kar rahi ho, khushi?" what are you doing, khushi? "arre aapko pata nahin, hum apna naya business..." oh you don't knwo i am starting my new business.all this had sadly not touched me as much as I would have liked, but that tum kya kar ri ho Khushi? Only one person can talk this way.. Am missing him badly.. she is too

smiling happy loopy mad khushi... girl that makes his heart beat wildly, why is she so sad so down? why ... it does bother him..

the truth has taken its toll on both.

sanaya and barun for a moment as just asr and khushi... a man and a woman who are in each other, part of each other. connected.


she looked lovely in that pink... and he darkly gorgeous.

he sits down to eat and she is upto her pranks in his heart, throwing water on him, lecturing while walking on top of the bed... he is irritated he can't stop the thoughts. memories come of the fight on the terrace. and a girl snapping athread with her teeth, her head resting almost on his chest... so close to him, his heartbeat...

"dammit!" there's only one thing to do, banish the thoughts. "main kyun uske baare mein soch raha hoon. mujhe faraq nahin padta... uski baato se, ya uski behaviour se... usski awaz bhi nahin sunna chahta main... na usski kisi baat ka explanation chahiye..."

why am i thinking of her. makes no difference to me... her words, her behaviour... don't want to hear her voice even... nor do i want her explanations.

"usska hona na hona mujhe itna pareshan kyun karta hai... kyun soch raha hoon main itna usske baare mein... why dammit!"

her being or not being around, why does it bother me so much... why am i thinking so much of her, why dammit!

thsi is an intelligent, articulate man. and this struggle to acknowledege and submit to a feeling is genuine and difficult to bear. he can see he is immersed in her thoughts. his dimag says he can't have feelings for a home breaker, his sister's husband's lover... but a part of him is rebellious. it doesn't listen to his head. it does its own thing. tormented is he by her thoughts... and he misses her smile. one day he will say as much... he will do anything to put that smile on those lips. the first time he had seen her, they had registered before all else. see you are doing it again.. I hadn't liked all this as much and now reading what you write.. am all smiles or in this case lets say tears..

at the poolside he sits, looking stunning in jacket and that classic distracted air. he sighs, memories plague him.. khushi is drunk at diwali...dancing... beguiling... feelings well up again. the entire day today, knowing full well that he leaves soon, and perhaps even more vulnerable because it's his mother's birthday the next day, he thinks of khushi and nothing but her. she is embedded in his being now. is it really possible to leave any more?

he bangs shut comp and looks up. there is the real girl right before him.

he yells at her for no reason. maybe needs to talk, needs to try and be in control.. i want you to understand mujhe in cheezon se koi faraq nahin padta.. such a genuine reaction when disturbed..

a little later in the day. in the meantime, shyam has switched papers, she has had them signed, hidden and photographed them, and shyam has made a disgusting declaration of love, creeping everything, i bet even the fly on the wall, out. shyam's dialogues were so well crafted, raunchy, base, sickening, but wrapped in shuddh hindi, with plenty "aap" and and pseudo courtesy. while teh man she wants only says blatant, in your face "tum" and doesn't seem to care about the purity of language, as long as it says what eh wants to and the way he wants to, dammit... what the... tum kya kar rahi ho... faraq nahin padta. and she does thrill to it all. baat aapki hai.

she calls him, he ignores the call.

the phone as a prop to convey intese despair... so well used. and kind of real. the frantic calls, teh switching off. the emotional roller coaster such simple littel things can set up.

stop calling me khushi.

and it is anjali who tells her sister in law that her brother si going to london. he likes to be alone on this day. can't share his pain...

khushi stunned by this news, but it isn't of herself she thinks... it is only of him. many might think this is wimpish, but that is love... in this already sad sate of mind, his dukh is increasing because of her... she must tell him... this phase and later when she plays aaj that aaj piya tohe pyar doon song I really learnt a lot from Khushi.. How to handle your man in pain.. how to try and make him feel better without irritating him.. how not getting irritated yourself.. lovely Khushi!

and a lover is filled with fear and panic, no i won't let him go, i must prove the truth... she runs out... eyes already beginning to look desperate... he is leaving.

the episode here onward felt like a song, a balad or a ghazal or a gut wrenching love song with a tempo, a beat, a tune, and a cry for love, for life itself... saans hi nahin...

throughout in the car he thought of no one but her. he reaches the airport. a concentrated and lost look on his face.

she is getting there in a cool cab. a little detail bothered me here. surely he has several cars and drivers. in such a well directed and sensitively handled situation, a little what the.

he is inside the airport, walking in... she has reached.  he is leaving without telling her 💔... how much is said in just that. he couldn't have Indi di.. he shouldn't have.. imagine if she didn't reach on time what would it have done to her? and him? boo hoo..

she has no money to enter, she has forgotten to take the change back from the taxi driver, she is frantic, runs to the gate where they won't let her in... he is walking away. her heart calls out...

"aranv ji," she mutters.


and he hears it... he stops...a finality in his eyes. he feels things he can't talk about. and after a long time, a gust of wind... as it has come again and again, in 57 when he thought she was gone... it comes... a couple of minutes and goosebumps... an entire episode here, a lead up just in his missing her smiling laughing triumphant face.

she would have turned away, but the wind came and touched her... she turned back... and a slightly stooped dejected looking arnav singh raizada turned too. she saw him at last.

hey hey, the piano notes trilled, you can leave each other maybe but the song never leaves your heart your memory..

as his eyes found her, his lips moved just  hint, an involuntary rush of joy in his hert.. a smile, almost. a beautiful smile, eyes lighting. oh you noticed too? wasn't it uplifting? his heart knew her enough and was sure she would come. In Love Aaj Kal movie Wise old Rishi kapoor explained to Saif Ali Khan the importance of coming to the station/airport for a final goodbye.. and even we claim we do not want it our heart soars high at this display of affection.. here there is so much added complicacy but in some ways there is just a simple love story..


across the distance a longing and a need spanned... he needed her like he needed nothing else... and she him... to know this truth it will take a bit of time. what if it takes forever. the heart sank at the thought. why did these two actors' love matter to a jaded one like me? maybe because nothing felt like acting. it was real. and in that longing was a preciousness that is priceless. it completely threw off the veil of jadedness that the years bring and said, come, dare to live, to love, to break, and die. beautiful!


she saw his gaze, she felt the yearning, a happiness seemed to touch her... oh the relief and joy at finding him.


on diwali night a recognition of things that can never be denied had taken place... she had looked through a glass later as he had taken another wild step to somehow escape her spell. not ready to succumb to such a huge feeling. today again, she is behind a glass, tears streaming down her cheeks and he is off.

rabba vey. a few moments of forgeting all reality and just being in each others hearts.

then she was stopped, she called to him... she wanted to speak, suddenly reality stepped back in... jerked him out of that beautiful trance... he turned away...

she called him, he disconnected the line, looking at her all the while... were there tears in his eyes.

oohh I had not noticed the tears.. bad resolution I guess..

she called again... she was not going to stop today, not till she got him to hear, to understand, to come back to her... she couldn't live without that...


agony gripped him, then he, who so wanted to believe that all he had seen was a lie, did give into his gut, his heart, and answered the call.

"kya sunu...!" he gritted out, brusque abrupt tone... no one hurts like a man who knows he is hurting but doesn't yet understand why... there you go being all wise again..


"kya bolna chahti ho...!" what do you want to say. sharp words like shots.

"hum aapko bata na chahte hain ki shyam ji..." i want to tell you that shyam ji...

a jerk of a wrist and the phone is off the ear. shyam... the mere mention hits him hard, hurts. I loved this reaction.. just his name and the gussa returned..


she is heartbroken, he is leaving. she has lost touch with him, her life ebbs... yes it does feel like death... maran re tuhu mama shyam saman.


arnav ji, ruk jaiye... her words float around in as the world swirls uncaring and busy with everyday mundane things... ticket. you don't have  a ticket...

beautiful juxtaposition of the mundane and pointless with that deep anguish and an emotion that brings light to everything, even a plain glass door with bright blue frame and plastic palms. 

he wanted to look back... why? and yet he did and he shook off the feeling again and again...

rabba vey played as he left her and she cried not caring where she was, just her feelings mattered.


and then he returned... perhaps that string that ties them is too hard to break, no matter how many times you snap it. he can't stay away.

"aap gaye nahin..." she is mystified, elated. you didn't go.

"aap ruk gaye..." you stayed.

"tumne zabardasti rok," you made me stay. who can do zabardasti with this man. 🥺looks away, and back, so much in the eyes.

"kyun kar rahi ho yeh sab?" why are you doing all this.

"kyunki hum aapse baat karna chahte hain!" because i want to talk to you. a spirit in her now... when he is near, she is whole again. the classic lover, incomplete without her love, divine and even mere mortal lovers in culture after culture have been like that. a right a huq she keeps feeling... absolutely.. she is whole and alive just with him.. then she can be as crazy as she wants.. she knows he will yell be amused but be hers.. all this not listening to her, silently going away is killing her..

how can you think shyam and i... she starts, and again that name he cannot tolerate. possibly especially from her lips. it is tainting, obscene almost. 

"mujhe iss baare mein kuch nahi sunna..." don't want to hear anything about this.

khushi moves swiftly and does a very khsuhi thing, she snatches away his ticket. he is astounded.

please wait a bit, soon your doubts will clear... she pleads. she believes shyam is on his way to talk to asr. she still believes this will happen.

the hope in his eyes, the plea in hers...

"aap ko rukna hi hoga..." you have to stop... again that right.

"agar aap hamare baare mein aisa sochenge toh humse bardasht nahin hoga..." if you think this of me, i won't be able to tolerate it.

" bardasht nahin hofa... bardasht toh main nahi kar sakta!" you won't be able to tolerate it... i can't tolerate it!

i have done nothing that you should think this of me or give me such a sazaa... punishment.

just looks... liquid, limpid and flecks of fire. a look, a swallow... he leaves...


yet again he returns. beautiful... this push me pull you. unmistakable sign of a vital emotion.

"10 minutes.. thus minute hai tumhare paas sach sabid karne ke liye..."  you have ten minutes to prove the truth. sach... he asks for it finally. soon he won't care, he will know what is the greatest truth. and that in fact cannot be proven.

"uske baad i'll be gone!" then i'll be gone.

crowds jostle the girl he hates... a man moves forward, an arm protects, a body stands between a woman and the world... she is his patni, he her pati, he always her protector. hamesha. this is an instinct he cannot deny. a beautiful moment thought up by creatives. speaks eloquently without a single word. I love how she was all sudh budh khoi and unaware of physical discomfort, of herself .. so focused was she on him.. and he.. hater her of course.. but dare someone hurt her..


di said why you are going today, if you stayed... she feels his loving, she tries to break through, touch his core, tell him she is always here... make him feel better. such a nice change in tone here.. everything soft.

conventional wisdom: lady, the man has called you all sorts of pretty bad things, don't care, make him apologise and till he does, stay away, be angry. never give in. demand your right.

the wisdom of love: feel his pain, give him care, love him, no matter what he thinks of you, don't stop loving him, if need be just forgive him and forget what he said, he says all this because he hurts. 👏 
exactly.. if all of us could be like Khushi.. people say she put up with nonsense.. regressive story.. women empowerment bla bla.. I say love.. she does it for her own self.. and because she is strong enough to take it.. because it feels right to go to anything for him.. because even when her arm has his imprint it is hers.. she is the one who he chose to connect to this way.. ok am sounding crazy..

great love stories have that wisdom. correct sounding tales with poltical correctness its main aim, will never feel this ecstasy. where submission is the ultimate conquest.

"tumhare pas sirf teen minute hain..." she has only three minutes. countdown to what...

"tumne aakhri baar mujhse kuch manga aur maine diya... got to go now" he speaks of teh last time... akhri... is it the end?

"stop it khushi stop it NOW. i know koi aanewala nahin hai... main ruka sirf issliye tha kyunki..." i know no one's coming, i stopped only because... and that terrifying pause after kyunki... because.

but this time a thought needs to be expressed.

a slight air of helplessness on a stern face...

"kyunki kahin na kahin (voice breaks on kahin) main chahta tha ki tum apne aap ko beqasoor proove karo.. shayad ek hope thi ki shayad tum galat nahi ho... par galat main tha..."  nice mixture of English words and Hindi here don't you think? whenever he had longish dialogues they did full justice to it don't you think?

because somewhere i wanted you to prove your innocence... maybe i had a hope that you are not wrong... but i was wring...

"lekin iss aakhri mauke ko bhi tum utni wafadari se nibhaya jaise apni har galti ko... enough khushi, ab aur nahin... i am going khushi... ab toh sach bata do..." he is so disappointed, sad, miserable really. did he ever ask himself why it was important? why he cared. 😭 sniffing... going to get my hanky.. maybe put some ether on it for old times sake..

she must have made some "stoopid" plan to mislead him he says.

"mat jaiye..." don't go. that's all she can say, she can think or feel. her whole being seems to say that in that torn desperate voice.

her hand on his shoulder... she is getting physical like him. that tension between two people very close, a frenetic feel to it all. nice catch.. yes its desparation.. a violence really.. so frantic is she..


"kyun tumhe faraq padta hai..." why does it make a difference to you? he has felt so badly unloved on that terrace that night. he thought he made all the difference to her, but apparently...


"kyun? kyun faraq padta hai? kyunki baat aapki hai issliye faraq padta hai... aur agar aap hi aise chale jayenge toh hum saans hi nahi le p-"

and she says the words he surely does understand... and long to hear. makes a difference because it is you... if you leave like this... then how will i even breathe...

i can't live without you...

the hour of separation is near. hears are open and vulnerable... inevitability lurks in the air, bidding  all to rush to it... time ticks, refusing to stand still...

and memories come, one upon another, in pictures, in sounds, in every pore of ones being... aisa kyun hota hai...

in his heart echoes of what he had said in an unguarded moment and meant every word, every silence... jab jo bura kaha uska koi matlab nahin.. jab jo bura kiya uska koi matlab nahin.. iss pyaar mein sahi aur galat ka koi matlab nahin, bas... ke main hamesha  hamesha tumse...


she clutches his hand to stop him, please don't go, but he is adamant, he pulls her hand off his, having already taken back his ticket ad putting it into his pocket, beautiful direction here.

he leaves. and the saddest walk down the gallery, looking downcast, almost ill, the distance between him and the girl struggling at the doorway increases. was it all acting? I thought he was really ill.. looking oily and exhausted.. but you are right the shooting hasn't started yet right? so he should have been in best of health and spirits?

somewhere in a colourless place, a no man's land, he touches his feelings... the voice in his head asks, "kyun aisa feel kar raha hoon main, kyun khushi se door jaane mein ittni taqleef ho rahi hai mujhe... why dammit."

why am i feeling like this... why is it hurting me so much to go far away from khushi... why dammit.

beautiful dialogue. a precise understanding of  a state of mind in the language of the man who says it. the distance bothers him. to hate her while she sleeps next to hi or makes his life hellish is acceptable.. this distance. yet it is this very thing that will bring peace and reconciliation within.

she looked up at the plane... there up in the sky where she  had once seen his chopper...

asr didn't make it to the plane. barun shot his film. we got the beautiful and emotional kidnap track. maybe his film did not release, but by necessitating this separation, it did a far more magical thing.

have i ever seen such beautiful lovers or felt so much of their feelings. khushi the lover is among us now... that bridge onward she was never the same. the girl is metamorphosing, a woman is emerging, a lover has laid claim... and a man who never had a chance to be a boy has asked the question only a lover can ask, who else bothers to ask why it hurts to leave the one you think is a fallen woman, the one you hate.



Absolutely brilliant Indi di.. and devi maiyya ki kripa however busy I maybe I always find time to read your takes.. am lucky I get a chance to read them..that I came to IF.. before I forget you didn't mentioned he finally turned? and had a slight smile before getting kidnapped? why?

I wasn't too happy with the first half as you know, but your writing was beautiful..made me feel things I wanted to feel but couldn't really while watching.. and the 2nd half.. pure balad, symphony and whatever other words that are synonyms of it.. the edits are priceless! Thank you for this heartfelt farewell..

it completely threw off the veil of jadedness that the years bring and said, come, dare to live, to love, to break, and die.  loved this line..

Oh and thanks for reading my 251 and lots of comments.. me like lots of comments 😳





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^^^
rhea, thanks for reading that huge long one promptly. 

it was full of typos, and i went and corrected, adding more stuff in... my craziness is what it is.

yes, i love the way they write his words with that easy filtering in of english... reflects so much about his whole personality, his character. if he can say "tum usski bahon mein..." a hackneyed sixties type line as issk pointed out, so beautifully. he can say dammit brilliantly and most sexily too.

span. this character has such breadth, there is the archetypal male to the most contemporary man, all in him. not having paid enough attention in english lit classes during undergrad years i don't have the elegant structure and language to dwell on this character. he deserves one of those great writers on character to pore over and through him.

but i can tell you, he hits several spots in me, from the most ancient to the most here and now, from me as every woman to me as me, from the most physical to the most extra rational and beyond ward, across all my years as a woman, starting ha ha age 9, the year i had my first crush... yes yes i did teehee. 

if one had to do one of those complex three d models to plot the various points where he gets me, it would be interesting and always incomplete.

now was this the character or the actor or a bit of both? i'd imagine, third option is closest to the truth.

those tears, maybe it was just the glare from the lights, but it added to that intensity.

he turned back when he felt the tap on the shoulder, a slight excitement in him, maybe he was hoping t was her though he knew it couldn't be... lovers are crazy slightly. perhaps always. i did not get into that one, mainly because i was exhausted. this episode again was happening at too many levels. i thought the barun going away story would not bother me now. but it did. 

about the wisdom of love. fully applies when we are talking of an essentially sound character. and your gut will tell you who is or isn't. of course if he is a wife beater or a small low character, love if it comes will still speak but differently no doubt. 

the thing with asr is, once you had see that descent from the chopper, the walking out on long strides toward something that seemed to want him, hold him. seen him take off his shades and look... look at that house and the screen had wiped to black and white and a memory, you knew this was a man with a richness in him, a tumultuous but sacred memory he carries... and he has a strength that is inordinate. the word extraordinary just came along and took over with every passing minute. by the end of episode one, and after seeing that tenderness with his sister and the intense embers in his eyes, and i must say his sheer style and arrogance, was it ever possible to think of him as anything but beautiful.

such a man you could forgive even when he did hurt you... because you knew why he did that, you knew why even his hurting was preferable to any other man's adulation. because he loved like very few could and you loved him right back, entering depths you never thought you had. 

khushi had wisdom beyond her years when it came to asr. and she had absolute power over him. 
watch him try to get away from her thoughts and fail badly. aww.

rhea, i try not to generalise, but there's a lot of asr in the man i live with, all complications in... khushi figured out stuff it took me years to even begin to understand. i still make big mistakes. the cleanness in these characters and the ability to love... um ah er... i love it dammit.

so i made you like things you didn't. poor you. my sanka attack. 😆



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went to bed early🥱 feeling sick 🤢but of course i woke up few hours later so i come here and read.😉  first of all indi and rhea your 251 reviews are amazing,👏 haven't posted mine too emotional 😭but maybe cause i was getting sick and just couldn't think 🤢anyway i am rambling on and on...we have different writing techniques, but what  is crazy  we see differently but we also see and feel the same on certain scenes.  indi i used the fly on the wall too!  i laughed after reading that.  maybe tomrrw if i am feeling better i will post and really comment individually.  who knows?😕
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cyn,
awww hugs, still feeling down... ufff. thanks for reading and letting it take your mind away.

251 will always be a painful thing to watch... crosses into our anxiety about barun leaving and itself is so disturbing and killing really. jacob did once leave for london without talking to me... i will never ever forget that wretched feeling, like a string cutting through you, a rough twisted string. melodramatic huh. but what to do, i am mad.

and once in bombay airport he stood missing me. my stomach goes whopsanahjdk even now when i think of him standing there quietly, i had come out of the security unexpectedly, and caught an expression. okay me dead now.

he says way back once when i went to see him off at, again, bombay airport and he was leaving for almost two months, we were not yet married, he felt all sorts of terribly tender stuff, all because i took a taxi early morning and went all the way. ha ha i still remember what i was wearing.

airports are funny places for lovers.

sanaya barun just so tuned in, so lover like... and parting ahead. no no, all poets, keep quiet, parting ain't no sweet sorrow... takes the mickey minnie and goofy out of you.

the breath indeed does stop.

okay, have i inspired you? please do write this one... we can all go to kidnap then.

and one thing, no matter how much i write on ipk, i know i never quite get it all.

i mis these horrible people. i slept at 4.45 last night, determined to get this done.

tell me am i getting marks for these?

yeah, only dark circles.
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Cynthia - Hope you feel better soon! 

Indi di two men in your life. Both making such good use of airports! I need to look around more closely the next time am in the vicinity of a plane, may end up seeing a real life IPK playing out in front of me. 😆
Such a great character study of ASR. And an ever greater study of what he does to us. what this story does to us. You are getting full marks you know?

One of the most interesting things I felt about Arnav and Khushi in the earliest episodes was how much groundwork was getting laid out by the creators. He had so few dialogues. Hardly spoke. But as Indu mentioned in the first 20 mins it got established he had single threaded focus, ruthless but tender to di. Almost living in a daze so aloof his entire body language and closed face were. And then she landed in his arms. Everything came alive. But even then there was something held back. And slowly gradually the farak in its full glory laid out for all to experience.. you see every resitence crumble and fall. Till you reach the Arnav of the remarriage days and beyond. What a journey he took us through.

And for Khushi (the character we know she is and not the Ms India she becomes) I always felt there was so much chatter. Burst of energy. Remember puri express? And just minutes earlier she had stood silent and still, remembering the terrible fight with tenderness. Shades of character. The uneasiness, garbar. Was she only interested in fun and frolic? She did not like Shyam, but fell for ASR. Now not letting him go. She has embraced her love for this man. They aren't using the word, but she is not in the state to fight the feeling. You are right. Sohara says this too. This girl has wisdom beyond her years. In handling others too. Straightforward with Sim..aah.. But have seen that in other shows as well. But in handling this complicated man, something exceptional.. touching him where no one else can possibly reach.. meeting him as his equal.. a woman in those precious moments.. and entertaining him and us as the pagal par cute girl at other times.. lovely.. your Khushi in without you I feel is exactly consistently like this..
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episode 251



khushi looked up and her eyes followed a plane as it took off. her head turned all the way to one side, a sadness terribly deep in her. as i watched an echo from the very first day we met them came back, a young woman, fresh, innocent, unmarked by this knowledge that she has today... looking up at a helicopter, another sky rider approaching. no idea her rajkumar is sitting inside. today, she knows who is in that large machine that defies gravity and wings her love away. she has been marked now, once and for all by love.

like bookends, the two scenes, between them the first book of a pyaar that is difficult to name. from not knowing to knowing we have come, what awaits us next. a clear sense of a whole phase coming to its end and a new one beginning... like an ocean's ebb and flow... the tide has turned, the ebbing starts, yet below the surface and tow, a pulling in, can anyone ever go away again?

251... a pain filled yet exhilarating long episode. this is the last day we shall see asr the way we are so used to seeing him, in a long time. the actor is going away on longish leave, but we have been assured he will return from time to time and shoot. we know he will be kidnapped... he is not in that plane. we also know that airport scene was not shot in an airport... it's a shopping mall.

we know many things. and we are tense... i was very very tense really. yet the actors reached effortlessly and unfalteringly in and touched hidden places, i felt my feelings soar.

baat aapki hai... kyun khushi se door jaane mein...



you are the sun, i am the moon, you are the words, i am the tune... play me. neil diamond from the seventies in a scene here suddenly. a beautiful, startling shot of a very disturbed asr waking up as a dejected khushi opens the curtain to let sunlight in. ever since the bridge a sadness and longing wraps the two, a yawning distance between them. and in khushi now a simple realisation and an absolute need. he is hurting terribly about this whole shyam thing, he is in pain... she must convince him that it's not true, because even she can't live if he should think so badly of her.


the word love may not have been stated, but these two were lovers true. and of a kind that never felt hackneyed, never felt jaded, but always as alive and radiant as that sunlight. or darkly sparkling like a star wrapped night sky.

that shower of sunlight on his face, if only it were so easy to bring light... the veil of deceit was as thick as that curtain but not as easy to draw.

an awkwardness to the morning. where does one go from here... her voice signals things to him... he senses her, she senses him, somewhere in all the hate and nafrat, in all the i'll show you swami and harassing laad governor, in all the accusing and counter accusing, in all the rage and chhap gaya hai and everything that has transpired, somewhere since that very first day when a man opened his eyes and a girl shut hers, something indelible has taken root and grown and is now in place... phenk do, throw it away he had told her... but she couldn't... he had tried to turn and walk away, but he had had to turn around. palat.


"ji shukla ji..."

and a palat. he knows she is down, he even knows why to an extent, and he can't bear it. it bothers him.

she hands him his towel, head down and looking wan, and he remembers the squabbling and race for the bath just a couple of weeks ago, a smiling crazy sanka khushi. the girl he wants, the girl he adores. he even recalls, humney kaha uthiye na... swami. maybe he enjoyed that ragging by her, maybe he felt a bit tickled by her supreme madness?

missing. longing. needing.

quiet portrayals of it in looks, in eyes, and turn of head and a pace, like little paintings strewn across the wall, each shot of the two this difficult morning after. khushi knows she must make him sign the papers. he knows he will go away.

each and every shot between the two eloquent, layered and moving. little mattered that shaym and anjali scenes were somewhat flat and loud. perhaps they needed to be noisy as they had to claim our attention today if not our hearts. the lead is going away, the visual play is shifting, hear ye hear ye. there's a sensitivity among the creatives when doing the asr khushi scenes. so delicately handled, taking time over every emotion, every action. kyun dard ha itna like a clear brief through it all.

"n.nahin shukla ji ab humse yeh dabba service nahin hoga..." she can't do this dabba service any more. a khushi forlorn, so unlike herself.

another palat.

again a memory of a smiling girl... "tum kya kar rahi ho, khushi?" what are you doing, khushi? "arre aapko pata nahin, hum apna naya business..." oh you don't know i am starting my new business.

smiling happy loopy mad khushi... girl that makes his heart beat wildly, why is she so sad so down? why ... it does bother him..

the truth has taken its toll on both.

sanaya and barun for a moment as just asr and khushi... a man and a woman who are in each other, part of each other. connected.


she looked lovely in that pink... and he darkly gorgeous.

he sits down to eat and she is up to her pranks in his heart, throwing water on him, lecturing while walking on top of the bed... he is irritated he can't stop the thoughts. memories come of the fight on the terrace. and a girl snapping a thread with her teeth, her head resting almost on his chest... so close to him, his heartbeat...

"dammit!" there's only one thing to do, banish the thoughts. "main kyun uske baare mein soch raha hoon. mujhe faraq nahin padta... uski baato se, ya uski behaviour se... usski awaz bhi nahin sunna chahta main... na usski kisi baat ka explanation chahiye..."

why am i thinking of her. makes no difference to me... her words, her behaviour... don't want to hear her voice even... nor do i want her explanations.

"usska hona na hona mujhe itna pareshan kyun karta hai... kyun soch raha hoon main itna usske baare mein... why dammit!"

her being or not being around, why does it bother me so much... why am i thinking so much of her, why dammit!

this is an intelligent, articulate man. and this struggle to acknowledge and submit to a feeling is genuine and difficult to bear. he can see he is immersed in her thoughts. his dimag says he can't have feelings for a home breaker, his sister's husband's lover... but a part of him is rebellious. it doesn't listen to his head. it does its own thing. tormented is he by her thoughts... and he misses her smile. one day he will say as much... he will do anything to put that smile on those lips. the first time he had seen her, they had registered before all else.

at the poolside he sits, looking stunning in jacket and that trademark distracted air. he sighs, memories plague him.. khushi is drunk at diwali...dancing... beguiling... feelings well up again. the entire day today, knowing full well that he leaves soon, and perhaps even more vulnerable because it's his mother's birthday the next day, he thinks of khushi and nothing but her. she is embedded in his being now. is it really possible to leave any more?

he bangs shut the computer and looks up. there is the real girl right before him.

he yells at her for no reason. maybe needs to talk, needs to try and be in control... i want you to understand mujhe in cheezon se koi faraq nahin padta..

a little later in the day. in the meantime, shyam has switched papers, she has had them signed, hidden and photographed them, and shyam has made a disgusting declaration of love, creeping everything, i bet even the fly on the wall, out. shyam's dialogues were so well crafted, raunchy, base, sickening, but wrapped in shuddh hindi, with plenty "aap" and pseudo courtesy. while the man she wants only says blatant, in your face "tum" and doesn't seem to care about the purity of language, as long as it says what he wants to and the way he wants to, dammit... what the... tum kya kar rahi ho... faraq nahin padta. and she does thrill to it all. baat aapki hai.

she calls him, he ignores the call.

the phone as a prop to convey intense despair... so well used. and kind of real. the frantic calls, the switching off. the emotional roller coaster such simple little things can set up.

stop calling me khushi.

and it is anjali who tells her sister in law that her brother is going to london. he likes to be alone on this day. can't share his pain...

khushi is stunned by this news of his leaving town, but it isn't of herself she thinks... it is only of him. many might think this is wimpish, but that is love... in this already sad sate of mind, his dukh is increasing because of her... she must tell him...

a lover is filled with fear and panic, no i won't let him go, i must prove the truth... she runs out... eyes already beginning to look desperate... he is leaving.

the episode here onward felt like a song, a balad or a ghazal or a gut wrenching love song with a tempo, a beat, a tune, and a cry for love, for life itself... saans hi nahin le...

throughout in the car he thought of no one but her. he reached the airport. a concentrated and lost look on his face.

she is getting there in a cool cab. a little detail bothered me here. surely he has several cars and drivers. in such a well directed and sensitively handled situation, a little what the.

he is inside the airport, walking in... she has reached.  he is leaving without telling her... how much is said in just that.

she has no money to enter, she has forgotten to take the change back from the taxi driver, she is frantic, runs to the gate where they won't let her in... he is walking away. her heart calls out...

"aranv ji," she murmurs looking hassled.


and he hears her... he stops...he knows it is her. bas, pata chal jata hai... and after a long time, a gust of wind... as it has come again and again, in 57 when he thought she was gone, now when he is going away... it comes... a couple of minutes and goosebumps... an entire episode here, a lead up just in his missing her smiling laughing triumphant face.

she would have turned away, but the wind comes and touches her... she turns back... and a slightly stooped dejected looking arnav singh raizada turns too. she sees him at last.

hey hey, the piano notes trill, you can leave each other maybe but the song never leaves your heart your memory.

as his eyes found her, his lips moved just a hint, an involuntary rush of joy in his heart.. a smile, almost. a beautiful smile, eyes lighting.


across the distance a longing and a need spanned... he needed her like he needed nothing else... and she him... to know this truth it will take a bit of time. what if it takes forever. the heart sank at the thought. why did these two actors' love matter to a jaded one like me? maybe because nothing felt like acting. it was real. and in that longing was a preciousness that is so rare, so invaluable. it completely threw off the veil of jadedness that the years bring and said, come, dare to live, to love, to break, and die.


she saw his gaze, she felt the yearning, a happiness seemed to touch her... oh the relief and joy at finding him.


on diwali night a recognition of things that can never be denied had taken place... she had looked through a glass later as he had taken another wild step to somehow escape her spell, not ready to succumb to such a huge feeling. today again, she is behind a glass, tears streaming down her cheeks and he is off.

rabba vey. a few moments of forgetting all reality and just being in each others hearts.

then she was stopped, she called to him... she wanted to speak, suddenly reality stepped back in... jerked him out of that beautiful trance... he turned away...

she called him, he disconnected the line, looking at her all the while... were there tears in his eyes.


she called again... she was not going to stop today, not till she got him to hear, to understand, to come back to her... she couldn't live without that...


agony gripped him, then he, who so wanted to believe that all he had seen was a lie, did give into his gut, his heart, and answered the call.

"kya sunu...!" he gritted out, brusque abrupt tone... no one hurts like a man who knows he is hurting but doesn't yet understand why...


"kya bolna chahti ho...!" what do you want to say. sharp words like shots.

"hum aapko bata na chahte hain ki shyam ji..." i want to tell you that shyam ji...

a jerk of a wrist and the phone is off the ear. shyam... the mere mention hits him hard, blinding pain.


she is heartbroken, he is leaving. she has lost touch with him, her life ebbs... yes it does feel like death... maran re tuhu mama shyam saman.


arnav ji, ruk jaiye... her words float around as the world swirls uncaring and busy with everyday mundane things... ticket. you don't have  a ticket...

beautiful juxtaposition of the mundane and pointless with that deep anguish and an emotion that brings light to everything, even a plain glass door with bright blue frame and plastic palms. 

he wanted to look back... why? and yet he did and he shook off the feeling again and again...

rabba vey played as he left her and she cried not caring where she was, just her feelings mattered.


and then he returned... perhaps that string that ties them is too hard to break, no matter how many times you snap it. he can't stay away.

"aap gaye nahin..." she is mystified, elated. you didn't go.

"aap ruk gaye..." you stayed.

"tumne zabardasti roka," you made me stay. who can do zabardasti with this man. looks away, and back, so much in the eyes.

"kyun kar rahi ho yeh sab?" why are you doing all this.

"kyunki hum aapse baat karna chahte hain!" because i want to talk to you. a spirit in her now... when he is near, she is whole again. the classic lover, incomplete without her love, divine and even mere mortal lovers in culture after culture have been like that. a right, a huq she keeps feeling...

how can you think shyam and i... she starts, and again that name he cannot tolerate. possibly especially from her lips. it is tainting, obscene almost.

"mujhe iss baare mein kuch nahi sunna..." don't want to hear anything about this.

khushi moves swiftly and does a very khushi thing, she snatches away his ticket. he is astounded.

please wait a bit, soon your doubts will clear... she pleads. she believes shyam is on his way to talk to asr. she still believes this will happen.

the hope in his eyes, the plea in hers...

"aap ko rukna hi hoga..." you have to stop... again that right.

"agar aap hamare baare mein aisa sochenge toh humse bardasht nahin hoga..." if you think this of me, i won't be able to tolerate it.

"bardasht nahin hoga... bardasht toh main nahi kar sakta!" you won't be able to tolerate it... i can't tolerate it!

i have done nothing that you should think this of me or give me such a sazaa... punishment.

just looks... liquid, limpid and flecks of fire. a look, a swallow... he leaves...


yet again he returns. beautiful... this push me pull you. unmistakable sign of a vital emotion.

"10 minutes.. dus minute hai tumhare paas sach sabid karne ke liye..."  you have ten minutes to prove the truth. sach... he asks for it finally. soon he won't care, he will know what is the greatest truth. and that in fact cannot be proven.

"uske baad i'll be gone!" then i'll be gone.

crowds jostle the girl he hates... a man moves forward, an arm protects, a body stands between a woman and the world... she is his patni, he her pati, he always her protector. hamesha. this is an instinct he cannot deny. a beautiful moment thought up by creatives. speaks eloquently without a single word.


di said why you are going today, if you stayed... she feels his loving, she tries to break through, touch his core, tell him she is always here... make him feel better.

conventional wisdom: lady, the man has called you all sorts of pretty bad things, don't care, make him apologise and till he does, stay away, be angry. never give in. demand your right.

the wisdom of love: feel his pain, give him care, love him, no matter what he thinks of you, don't stop loving him, if need be just forgive him and forget what he said, he says all this because he hurts.

great love stories have that wisdom. correct sounding tales with political correctness its main aim, will never feel this ecstasy. where submission is the ultimate conquest.

"tumhare pas sirf teen minute hain..." she has only three minutes. a countdown to what...

"tumne aakhri baar mujhse kuch manga aur maine diya... got to go now" he speaks of the last time... akhri... is it the end? you asked me for something for one last time and i gave it to you... imperious... he who gives and asks for nothing... yet the undertow screams, i needed this, i needed you, i wanted you to give me yourself, i need to know you are not that woman, my mind doesn't listen, too many layers of pain numb it befuddle it, my past, my present, your voice, you in another man's arms, release me from this pain, tell me it isn't true. she can perhaps hear all that and more... without words, without perfectly flowing senstences, a lover knows, just like that.

but now he must claim himself back from this vulnerabilty, this defenselessness... h's got to go, cool urbane, invincible, don't care.

she won't let him...

"stop it khushi stop it NOW. i know koi aanewala nahin hai... main ruka sirf issliye tha kyunki..." i know no one's coming, i stopped only because... and that terrifying pause after kyunki... because.

but this time a thought needs to be expressed.

a slight air of helplessness on a stern face...

"kyunki kahin na kahin (voice breaks on kahin) main chahta tha ki tum apne aap ko beqasoor proove karo.. shayad ek hope thi ki shayad tum galat nahi ho... par galat main tha..."

because somewhere i wanted you to prove your innocence... maybe i had a hope that you are not wrong... but i was wrong...

"lekin iss aakhri mauke ko bhi tum utni wafadari se nibhaya jaise apni har galti ko... enough khushi, ab aur nahin... i am going khushi... ab toh sach bata do..." he is so disappointed, sad, miserable really. did he ever ask himself why it was important? why he cared.

she must have made some "stoopid" plan to mislead him he says.

"mat jaiye..." don't go. that's all she can say, she can think or feel. her whole being seems to say that in that torn desperate voice.

her hand on his shoulder... she is getting physical like him. that tension between two people very close, a frenetic feel to it all.


"kyun tumhe faraq padta hai..." why does it make a difference to you? he has felt so badly unloved on that terrace that night. he thought he made all the difference to her, but apparently...


"kyun? kyun faraq padta hai? kyunki baat aapki hai issliye faraq padta hai... aur agar aap hi aise chale jayenge toh hum saans hi nahi le p-"

and she says the words he surely does understand... and long to hear. sanaya's voice trembles, fills with tears and love and a surrender, khushi must say what she feels, though she too has not clearly articulated thoughts, she knows but if he should go, everything would cease to be, especially her breath, she... maran re...

makes a difference because it is you... if you leave like this... then how will i even breathe...

i can't live without you...

the hour of separation is near. hearts are open and vulnerable... inevitability lurks all around, bidding all to rush to it... time ticks, refusing to stand still...

and memories come, one upon another, in pictures, in sound, in every pore of one's being... aisa kyun hota hai...

in his heart echoes of what he had said in an unguarded moment and meant every word, every silence... jab jo bura kaha uska koi matlab nahin.. jab jo bura kiya uska koi matlab nahin.. iss pyaar mein sahi aur galat ka koi matlab nahin, bas... ke main hamesha  hamesha tumse...


she is galat, he is certain now and broken even more, yet what does galat really mean in a love such as this?

she clutches his hand to stop him, please don't go, but he is adamant, he pulls her hand off his, having already taken back his ticket ad putting it into his pocket, beautiful direction here as we will see later.


he leaves. and the saddest walk down the gallery, looking downcast, almost ill, the distance between him and the girl struggling at the doorway increases.

somewhere in a colourless place, a no man's land, he touches his feelings... the voice in his head asks, "kyun aisa feel kar raha hoon main, kyun khushi se door jaane mein ittni taqleef ho rahi hai mujhe... why dammit."

why am i feeling like this... why is it hurting me so much to go far away from khushi... why dammit.

beautiful dialogue. a precise understanding of a state of mind in the language of the man who says it. the distance bothers him. to hate her while she sleeps next to him or makes his life hellish is acceptable.. this distance. yet it is this very thing that will bring peace and reconciliation within.

she looked up at the plane... there up in the sky where she  had once seen his chopper...

asr didn't make it to the plane. barun shot his film. we got the beautiful and emotional kidnap track. maybe his film did not release, but by necessitating this separation, it did a far more magical thing.

have i ever seen such beautiful lovers or felt so much of their feelings. khushi the lover is among us now... that bridge onward she was never the same. the girl is metamorphosing, a woman is emerging, a lover has laid claim... and a man who never had a chance to be a boy has asked the question only a lover can ask, who else bothers to ask why it hurts to leave the one you think is a fallen woman, the one you hate.


 
Indi Di, I wanted to bawl my eyes out. I discovered these two a year back, if you continue to write this way, I think I'm marked for life.
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kizh,
aww, now don't make me go all soppy and weepy. these two are lovely. every time i make the mistake of watching early episodes i am going crazy... and 251... so damn sad and real. just atv show that too on humara tv, who would believe.